bLOGOS/HA HA: April 2022

30 April 2022

Thames And Regard

after James McNeill Whistler

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

someone looks at something...

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27 April 2022

DirecTAR

Brian Taylor calling the final minutes of the 2022 Anzac Day clash between The Bombers and The Magpies at the MCG : “They’re all pointing. Verbaleyesing directions.”

Saraha, Sarahapa, Sarahapāda (or, in the Tibetan language མདའ་བསྣུན་, [danün], Wyl. mda' bsnun The Archer), (circa 8th century CE) was known as the first sahajiya and one of the Mahasiddhas. The name Saraha means "the one who has shot the arrow.".^[1] According to one, scholar, "This is an explicit reference to an incident in many versions of his biography when he studied with a dakini disguised as a low-caste arrow smith. Metaphorically, it refers to one who has shot the arrow of non duality into the heart of duality."^[2] - Wikipedia

"Everything without exception

shares the nature of open space,

and never moves from it at any time.

Space is called 'open space',

but in its essence, nothing at all exists.

It is neither existent nor nonexistent,

nor not existent and not nonexistent -

it transcends any other domain of illustration.

Thus, mind, open space, and the nature of reality are not separate in the slighest."

- Saraha

Theatre and the Arrow of Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

someone looks at something...

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24 April 2022

TAR_Three Actors of Regard

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Theatre of the Actors of Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

someone looks at something...

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23 April 2022

10dazeinbed_

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Theatre of the Actors of Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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12 April 2022

re. Visible means of support (#8 verso)

How it's done ...

reveal (from Wiktionary)

English

Etymology
From Middle English revelen (“to reveal”),

from Middle French reveler,

from Old French,

from Latin revēlāre (“to reveal, uncover”),

from re- (“back, again”) + vēlāre (“to cover”),

from vēlum (“veil”).

Jacopo Ligozzi (1547–1627) Psittacus Ararauna

Theatre of Aviarian Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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11 April 2022

re. Visible means of support (#8)

independent (from Wiktionary)

English

Etymology
From French indépendant

Adjective
independent (comparative more independent, superlative most independent)
1. Not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free.
2. (politics) Not affiliated with any political party.
the independent candidate
3. Providing a comfortable livelihood.
an independent property
4. Not subject to bias or influence; self-directing.
a man of an independent mind
5. Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.

Synonyms
autonomous
free
self-standing

Jacopo Ligozzi (1547–1627) Psittacus Ararauna

Theatre of the Altitudes of Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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10 April 2022

re. Visible means of support (#7)

Not even nuthin' (J.S.)

FIAPCE at AGSA (-1987-)

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MISSING PAINTING

(History of Art)

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09 April 2022

re. Visible means of support (#6)

Verso follow-on from the hanging wires painted white :

a stand of black-painted hanging wires in an outside corner, rusting and flecked with shit from the white-throated treecreeper that sleeps above, clinging to the wall.

Theatre of the Accretions of Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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08 April 2022

Vale Ken West (1958-2022)

In February, we showed some drawings made at the first Sunbury Music Festival, fifty years ago.

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Theatre of the Anniversaries of Rock

Today we're wearing a Big Day Out tee shirt in remembrance of Ken West, co-founder of that great Australian touring festival.

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Theatre of the Arenas of Regard

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06 April 2022

re. Visible means of support (#5)

White With Wire Wheels aka W4 is the Title of a play by Jack Hibberd, first produced in 1967 at Melbourne University and published in Plays (1970, ed. Graeme Blundell). We didn't see that play, nor the poster until now, but early on we knew of and liked its Title.

In the early 1970s your correspondent exhibited several times at Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne. And also did occasional odd jobs there : minding the gallery, re-stretching and rehanging paintings for gallery clients, and before shows repainting the gallery's white hanging wires.

White wires on white walls : With regular repaints, a painterly crust had accumulated, vulnerable to chipping and to re-exposing the dark metal core.